Author Archives: Dusty Columbia Embury
Columbia Embury www.wright.edu
Author Archives: Dusty Columbia Embury
Columbia Embury www.wright.edu
Blog post by Thomas Macintyre In my birth home of New Zealand, the symbol of the Koru—the spiral—is a powerful metaphor for transformation. On the one hand, the Koru represents creation with the unfurling fern representing movement and expansion. On the other hand, the inner coil of the Koru, with its rolled inner leaflets, suggests […]
Read More...Blog post by Catherine Walker Young climate activists like Greta Thunberg and Severn Suzuki make headlines when they address high-profile environmental summits such as COP 24 and Rio 92. Yet such opportunities for young activists are not the norm, indeed, young people are often left out of knowledge production for climate action. So how can […]
Read More...In a sense, children have the most to lose from an unsustainable planet. Yet, because of the passive role that society usually assigns to them, children often have the least control over their environmental future. Carlie Trott addressed this lack of environmental empowerment among the young through ART research with her PAR collaboration with 10-12 […]
Read More...Blogpost by Daniel Morchain ABSTRACT Click to watch Karen O’Brien interview Daniel Morchain about his and Dian’s work. ‘This is not research!’ was the call for inaction that we needed to overcome to push ahead with this work. Getting researchers and policy-makers (and some lukewarm practitioners) to move away from a love-hate to a love-love […]
Read More...Blogpost by  Aly Bailey To date, few published body image studies have involved participants in helping to design body image programs. We believe action research offers a new way to approach research beyond traditional body image research methods (i.e., questionnaires) and approaches (i.e., randomized control trail) to promoting positive body image as it seeks the critical […]
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